Andrew Schlabach, LAc — Senior Advisor, Clinical Education

Andrew is Founder and President of the Acupuncture Relif Project, which has delivered nearly 600,000 patient visits through community-embedded primary care clinics in rural Nepal. He has authored peer-reviewed papers on non-communicable disease management in low-resource settings. His clinical and teaching philosophy centers on accurate diagnosis and structured clinical reasoning: the conviction that understanding the problem precedes solving it. He taught orthopedic acupuncture at OCOM for over a decade and currently teaches at NUNM, focusing on clinical reasoning and outcomes measurement. He maintains a private practice in Camas, WAshington. He is a US Army veteran. Andrew advises the Alliance on what competency-based training actually looks like when it’s working.